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A most melancholy accident occurred at Port Glasgow on Friday week. A daughter of Mr John McKellar, steamboat Officer, who for some time had been living in Glasgow, came down about the beginning of last week to visit her parents in Port Glasgow, accompanied by two of the children, a brother and sister of the friend with whom she had been lately residing. In the afternoon of the above day, they, along with two other daughters of Mr McKellar, went to take a walk to Newark Castle, and as they were engaged in amusing themselves about the shore, the little boy went into the water to bathe, but had only proceeded a few steps when he had lost his footing, the place where he had chosen being dangerous for bathing as the channel runs close by the shore. Immediately on observing the perilous situation of the boy, the eldest girl who was about 15 years of age, threw aside all fear and magnanimously rushed into the water, to effect, if possible, his deliverance. She caught hold of him but just at this critical moment when the object of her solicitude was nearly rescued, his weight overbalanced her, and she was drawn into deep water, and both were carried down by the rapid current, and sank clasped in each others arms. Another young witness of this trying scene was just about to jump in, but was prevented by a woman who was near, and who on learning what had happened hastened to the spot.
Glasgow Angus
Rereported Bucks Herald 4/8/1838.
Jim
